Marine biologist, Dr. Sherman Bleakney (1928 - 2019)". After retiring from the Acadia University Biology Department Professor Bleakney spent eight years investigating the Grand-Pré dykelands located on the south side the Minas Basin, an arm of the Upper Bay of Fundy. In 2004 he published the results of his research in a book titled Sods, soil, and spades: the Acadians at Grand Pré and their dykeland legacy. McGill-Queen's University Press.